Classical Gas

An instrumental, written by Mason Williams in 1967. It was released as a single in February of 1968 and reached the top of the charts by August. It received three Grammy awards: Best Instrumental Composition, Best Instrumental Performance, and Best Instrumental Arrangement. It remains popular to this day. In 1998 Classical Gas was named the most played instrumental of all time by Broadcast Music Inc.

The music can be found here: http://www.dataweb.nl/~fmesander/music/classic.htm (written), and here: http://www.missouri.edu/~cepelc/ClassicalGas.ra (audio)